Do You Know Your Employer Law?
January 20th, 2012 | 
Author: Being a small business owner is more than a job, it is a way of life. You are on call all hours of the day, night, and weekend to handle issues, fill in the gaps, and make sure your baby is running smoothly and generating a profit. Yet between managing your clients and your bottom line, is there something you are forgetting to stay updated on? If you don’t know the latest details about employer law, then you are setting up yourself – and all your hard work – for major issues.
Employer law is the government written guidelines for how a business of any size needs to deal with certain issues like maternity leave, employing minors, verifying worker legality, paying for overtime, and providing benefits and wages. While business owners have autonomy handling many aspects of their business, the way they care for and treat their employees is monitored by the government partly to ensure employees are not being mistreated, and partly so they can get their cut.
The tricky part of employer law is that, especially over the past several years, it has been adjusted considerably; meaning just because you understood the law as it stood three years ago doesn’t mean you understand the law as it is today. What this means to you as a small business own is what you don’t know about new law could cost you in the form of penalties or even legal action. And if your business is like so many small businesses right now, unexpected fines could push you over the brink into bankruptcy.
Yet the government isn’t the only party interested in you following the law as it is outlined – employees also look to employer law as a measure of how they expect to be treated, particularly in terms of benefits. So if you are not following the most up to date employer law, the hammer
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